The many modes of the representation and forms of text present a challenge to develop the literacies of students. These are multiliteracies and need to be developed to be able to analyse and evaluate the multimodal text. The Multimodal text is one where meaning is conveyed by more that one mode.
Dual voiced
Text
Image
The multimodal text works through the fact of communication through more than one mode.
Iconic
reading the symbols
requiring cultural knowledge
developing an understanding of the intertextual
Conventional
the linear written text
Breaking the visual code:
What can you read into the elements of the visual, thinking of issues such as
colour
frame
line
angle
perspective
vectors
modalities
postion of the viewer
The metafictive
Some of the things to consider when looking at picture books are that
the verbal and visual elements often contradict
meaning is constructed from the juxtaposition of the text
the distinction between popular and high culture is blurred
there are blurred boundaries between genre categories
blurred relationship between the author, narrator, illustrator, reader
multiple pathways
literary traditions / conventions subverted
intertextuality often explicit, metatextual (Derouet, 2010)
The Multimodal Text
The many modes of the representation and forms of text present a challenge to develop the literacies of students. These are multiliteracies and need to be developed to be able to analyse and evaluate the multimodal text. The Multimodal text is one where meaning is conveyed by more that one mode.
Dual voiced
The multimodal text works through the fact of communication through more than one mode.
Breaking the visual code:
What can you read into the elements of the visual, thinking of issues such as
The metafictive
Some of the things to consider when looking at picture books are that
- the verbal and visual elements often contradict
- meaning is constructed from the juxtaposition of the text
- the distinction between popular and high culture is blurred
- there are blurred boundaries between genre categories
- blurred relationship between the author, narrator, illustrator, reader
- multiple pathways
- literary traditions / conventions subverted
- intertextuality often explicit, metatextual (Derouet, 2010)
Check out this great discussion of multimodality from the ETA Conference:- Multimodality - pedagogy and practice